2024 Best General Human Services Associate Degree Schools in the New England Region
4Colleges in the New England Region
359Associate Degrees
General Human Services is of the hottest associate degree programs in the United States, coming in as the #33 most popular major in the country. This makes choosing the right school a hard decision.
College Factual reviewed 4 schools in the New England Region to determine which ones were the best for associate degree seekers in the field of general human services. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 359 associate degrees in general human services during the 2020-2021 academic year.
Choosing a Great General Human Services School for Your Associate Degree
The general human services associate degree program you select can have a big impact on your future. Important measures of a quality general human services program can vary widely even among the top schools. When choosing a school we recommend considering some of the following factors:
Quality Overall Is Important
A school that excels in educating for a particular major and degree level must be a great school overall as well. To account for this we consider a college's overall Best Colleges ranking which itself looks at a combination of various factors like degree completion, educational resources, student body caliber and post-graduation earnings for the school as a whole.
Other Factors We Consider
The metrics below are just some of the other metrics that we use to determine our rankings.
Major Focus - How much a school focuses on general human services students vs. other majors.
Major Demand - How many other general human services students want to attend this school to pursue a associate degree.
Educational Resources - How many resources are allocated to students. These resources may include educational expenditures per student, number of students per instructor, and graduation rate among other things.
Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized general human services related body.
Our complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for general human services students working on their associate degree.
The general human services school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we've developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of the Best General Human Services Associate Degree Schools in the New England Region.
Best Schools for Associate Students to Study General Human Services in the New England Region
Below you'll see a list of the best colleges and universities for pursuing an associate degree in general human services.
Top New England Region Schools for an Associate in General Human Services
Rankings in Majors Related to General Human Services
General Human Services is one of 0 different types of Human Services programs to choose from.
Notes and References
The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
The Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), a branch of the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) serves as the core of the rest of our data about colleges.
Some other college data, including much of the graduate earnings data, comes from the U.S. Department of Education’s (College Scorecard).